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CJDS-DAL SPREADS ITS WINGS
Last year the former Drake Automation Limited (DAL) decided to move into operations, offering fully managed solutions with its own staff on site. It set up a unit called Digital...
BLOOMBERG GERMANY CHANGES ASTRA TRANSPONDER
Bloomberg TV’s German-language service will move to another analogue transponder on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East). From April 10, 0500 CET, the Frankfurt-based financial news channel will be...
CECCHI GORI SUES STREAM PARTNERS
Vittorio Cecchi Gori is moving ahead with legal action against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and Telecom Italia, claiming they manoeuvred to oust him as their partner in pay-TV operator Stream...
NDS TEAMS WITH MICROSOFT
NDS has decided to adopt Microsoft’s enhanced television solution based on open standards. Microsoft, in a statement, said the link with NDS would also be targeted at the current generation...
KINDERKANAL GETS NEW NAME
Kinderkanal, the ARD/ZDF children’s television channel, will change its name to KiKa in May. The channel’s youngest viewers commonly use this abbreviation. The channel will also undergo a change of...
SKYPERFECTV WINS DIRECTV
Japan’s DirecTV Japan Inc has confirmed it is in talks with arch-rivals SkyPerfecTV to merge “and integrate” its operations. If the deal is concluded SkyPerfecTV, an operation of Japan Digital...
MCCAW SAYS 'NO' TO IRIDIUM
Eagle River Investments, Craig McCaw’s investment management firm, has confirmed it will not pursue an investment in Iridium. Instead Eagle River said it will focus its satellite communications investments on...
ONE MILLION DIGITAL SUBSCRIBERS FOR TELEPIU
Italy’s Telepiu entered the new millennium with more than 1,480,000 subscribers, out of which more than one million have chosen its digital satellite platform D+. Telepiu currently operates both digital...
DOUBLE VISION IN DUBAI
As Dubai prepares to launch digital terrestrial, one of the most lucrative markets in the Middle East now faces a confusing plethora of multichannel options. Interspace assesses the latest entrants...
TRANSPONDER MONITOR
Key: D = Digital A = Analogue 100.5 degrees E: Asiasat-2 D. MSTV is the name of a new channel originating from Taiwan which has just started to broadcast test...